Microsoft's free antimalware beta on the way

[Sudantha_s]

Microsoft will launch a public beta of its anti-malware service, Microsoft Security Essentials, on Tuesday as it phases out its Live OneCare suite in favor of a simpler free consumer security offering.

Microsoft Security Essentials, which will run on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7, will be available in the U.S., Brazil, and Israel in English and Brazilian Portuguese. A public beta version for Simplified Chinese will be available later in the year.
The service works like traditional antivirus products in which client software monitors programs on a PC. When something changes on the computer, such as files being downloaded or copied or software trying to modify files, the system checks against a set of malware signatures in the client program to see if the code matches the signature for known malware. If so, it blocks it from getting downloaded.

 

[poorna virajith]

hmm.........

 

[Matharry]

Hi,

Thanks for sharing the information.

Anti malware pieces of code that can attach themselves onto another executable program file that is opened to run PC software. This is the typical way that malware can attack computers, as there are other ways like running on an Internet web page script to get into the computer. They copy themselves into other files once inside a PC system and duplicate themselves as quickly as possible while avoiding detection by the computer's standard antivirus software.